The Casebook Of Newbury & Hobbes - Plot & Excerpts
It seems as if only a few months have passed. I’ve been astounded by people’s response to the series, by how many people have found something to enjoy in these madcap tales of derring-do and adventure in the dark streets of a Victorian London that never was. When I set out to write The Affinity Bridge it was purely an exercise in self-gratification. I wanted to write the type of story I love to read, something that would be sheer, unadulterated fun. I wanted to write a book for the sheer pleasure of it. The irony, of course, is that the book and the series it spawned has proved to be by far the most successful I’ve ever written. Which only goes to prove that old adage about writing for yourself, rather than writing what you think people are going to want to read... Four novels and a handful of stories later and the characters have taken on something of a life of their own. Now it seems like they’ve always been there, a part of my psyche. Perhaps they have. I originally conceived of Sir Maurice Newbury long before I wrote The Affinity Bridge.
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